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Comic Book Novels:...What, JUST Words?
Owenashi
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It isn't something that's suddenlly appeared, but novels based on comic-book characters still can be viewed as a curiousity and almost alien concept. This holds true for original stories and perhaps even more so for stories transcribed straight from a comic book. With a new run of novels being offered by both DC and Marvel, I thought we could use a thread to discuss the merits of trying to bring the colorful characters from both those companies and others out from their paneled cage within a page and down to the limits of black and white letters. Is it worth the effort or is it all just a big waste of paper that could be used to print out actual comic books? And on the flip-side of the subject, should regular literary characters and their authors cross over to the comic-rack side or should they stay right where they are?
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I'm a real fan of comic novels, because it's so much more for your dollar. Sure you don't get the pretty pictures, but you do get a lot more story.
Oh, and the Hellboy books are fanfuckingtastic.
you mean the ones with The Gentleman? they are really good.
Mysterio was actully a competant villian, Dr. Ock was threatening, Electro was usefull, it was amazing.
And god it had a lot of cameos. It had the characters from Preacher, and even the Scooby Doo gane.
Other than that, I've read the No Man's Land novelization, which is really excellent, better than the comics.
That first book
Does that have Batman and the Question in it?
Because if it does I need to own it and read it right the fuck now.
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it is like really super good
the end makes me cry
edit: apparently written by the same author as that first book in the OP.
Shit, I would read just a Question novel, but Batman is in it too? I must
have.
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Whoa whoa whoa
That first book
Does that have Batman and the Question in it?
Because if it does I need to own it and read it right the fuck now.
Shit, I would read just a Question novel, but Batman is in it too? I must
have.
Plus Lady Shiva/
This is a good fucking book.
And Richard Dragon. Seems to be a novelization of the Question's origin from what I could tell from the description on the back.
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i read that too. i liked it a lot. when i got back into comics, i decided i'd collect the trades of the knightfall story.
oh god are they awful. the art is atrocious and the writing is beyond bad.
stick with the book.
I had a few of the X-Men novels from the 90s. They were decent, I guess. Had a few pretty awesome scenes with Iceman using his powers quite offensively.
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Reading Kingdom Come? Without the purdy pictures?
That is sick.
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I recently read the Infinity Crisis novelization and it was flirting with being okay at best. Too much comics history I did not know about distracting me from the story (I'm a casual reader and don't know/care much about past subplots and the like), but that would be a problem with me reading the trade as well.
Also It's Superman! was a suprisingly good retelling of Superman's origin in a 'real world' setting.
It spends two pages just describing the size of Captain Marvel's junk
it's pretty good.
Yeah? Well Wild Cards' version of Dr. Strange harnesses his powers by holding in his semen when orgasms during tantric sex. Beat that.
I didn't say you couldn't beat Captain Marvel's meat.
I just said it would take about six different sets of hands to do it.
I loved that book. I read it when I was dragged along on a camping trip with my family; I'm not sure if I actually put it down before I reached the end.
why is that a spoiler
Reading Kingdom Come? Without the purdy pictures?
That is sick.
No, you quoted the wrong person. All you need to do is hit the quote button under a post, and the rest is done for you.
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yeah im a fucking idiot. Captain Marvel and his giant bulge would take up quite a number of pages in a book.
like, it was all side stories